Cuatrillo (capital: Ꜭ, small: ꜭ) (Spanish for "little four") is a letter of severalcolonial Mayan alphabets in theLatin script that is based on the digit4. It was invented by aFranciscan friar,Alonso de la Parra, in the 16th century to represent thevelar ejective consonant/kʼ/ found inMayan languages, and is known as one of theParra letters.
A derivative of the cuatrillo by adding a diacritic,⟨Ꜯ ꜯ⟩, was used for thealveolar ejective affricate/tsʼ/ found in the same languages.
The cuatrillo is encoded in Unicode at the code pointsU+A72C ꜬLATIN CAPITAL LETTER CUATRILLO andU+A72D ꜭLATIN SMALL LETTER CUATRILLO, respectively. The cuatrillo-commas are atU+A72E ꜮLATIN CAPITAL LETTER CUATRILLO WITH COMMA andU+A72F ꜯLATIN SMALL LETTER CUATRILLO WITH COMMA.
As an example of use, the letter appears when spelling the name of theKʼicheʼ language in the Parra orthography:ꜭiche.[1]
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